Information Retrieval (IR) systems are built with different goals in mind. Some IR systems target high precision that is to have more relevant documents on the first page of their...
This paper introduces the notion of temporally constrained ranked retrieval, which, given a query and a time constraint, produces the best possible ranked list within the specifi...
In this paper, we describe CALM, a method for building statistical language models for the Web. CALM addresses several unique challenges dealing with the Web contents. First, CALM...
In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...
In the TREC 2008, the team from the State University of New York at Buffalo participated in the Legal track and the Blog track. For the Legal track, we worked on the interactive s...
Jianqiang Wang, Ying Sun, Omar Mukhtar, Rohini K. ...